Abstract

The government’s funding of tertiary education started in 1948 when the University College of GoldCoast, now the University of Ghana; Legon was established to produce the manpower requirements ofthe country (Gye Nyame Concord, 2005). During the era, students at the university were treated as firstborn babies and were provided with almost everything, including pocket money by the government, toensure that the needed comfort was obtained for smooth scholarly work. It should be noted that allthese while, students were resident in the halls provided by the university. With time, the populationincrease of students did not correspond with increase in the number of residential facilities.Although, the government acknowledged the role of university education and the acquisition of criticalskills needed for the nation’s socio-economic development, it clearly stated its inability to act as thesole financier of tertiary education due to economic constraints coupled with the fact that there areequally important sectors of the economy that need to be catered for. For this reason, the governmentcame out with a white paper on tertiary education in 1992 which stated that government alone could notcontinue to bear the increasing cost of higher education and therefore there was the need for costsharing by all stakeholders.

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